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Feature Presentation for the October 23rd general meeting
From the internet - Protect your e-mail addresses
General Information
Newsletter Information
Meeting Schedule for the year
A Microsoft demo of Office XP and Windows XP
This months general meeting will be Oct 23rd , please note that
this is a Tuesday, for this occasion only, meeting time 7:00 - 9:00 pm.
Meeting place: The Scotia Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion,
at 5837 Cunard St Halifax The building is facing the Halifax
Commons between Robie and Agricola Streets. The Legion parking
lot is at the right of the building and is available for our use.
Meetings start: at 7:00 PM and end approximately 9:30 PM. The
Halifax Area PC Club is pleased to host Microsoft at its October
meeting. Meeting date is Tuesday the 23rd at the Legion on Cunard
Street at 7pm. All interested persons are invited to attend.
There is no cost for this meeting. Microsoft will be giving demo
presentations on Office XP and Windows XP. There is room for up
to 200 persons and Microsoft is known for the odd freebee and
door prizes so come out and attend what will prove to be an
exciting and informative meeting.
In this issue
This should be helpful information to protect yours and other's computers: , Fred Langa
also mentioned this tip in his October 10th news letter after
receiving e-mail from subscribers . But he adds the following
that it does nothing to prevent your machine from being infected.
The good news being that you won't send it to others.
I learned a computer trick today that's really ingenious in its simplicity.
As you may know, when/if a worm virus gets into your computer it heads straight for your e-mail address
book and sends itself to everyone in there, thus infecting all
your friends and associates. This trick won't keep the virus from
getting into your computer, but it will stop it from using your
address book to spread further, and it will alert you to the fact
that the worm has gotten into your system.
Here's what you do: first, open your address book and click on "new contact" just as you
would do if you were adding a new friend to your list of email
addresses. In the window where you would type your friend's first
name, type in !000 (that's an exclamation mark followed by 3
zeros). In the window below where it prompts you to enter the new
email address, type in WormAlert. (If it tells you this is not a
valid address just say yes to add it, or ok). Then complete
everything by clicking add, enter, ok, etc.
Now, here's what you've done and why it works: the "name" !000 will be placed at the top of
your address book as entry #1. This will be where the worm will
start in an effort to send itself to all your friends. But when
it tries to send itself to !000, it will be undeliverable because
of the phony email address you entered (WormAlert). If the first
attempt fails (which it will because of the phony address), the
worm goes no further and your friends will not be infected.
Here's the second great advantage of this method: if an email cannot be delivered, you will be
notified of this in your Inbox almost immediately. Hence, if you
ever get an e-mail telling you that an email addressed to
WormAlert could not be delivered, you know right away that you
have the worm virus in your system. You can then take steps to
get rid of it!
That’s all
In this issue
Chairperson David Potter
Vice-Chair Bill Marchant
Treasurer Rob MacCara
Web Librarian Thayne MacLean
Newsletter Editor Diane Smith
Membership Promotion Pat Conen
and the following members who assist in planning our monthly
meetings: Norman DeForest, Henry Hill, Ken Gilmour,and Colin Stuart.
The HAPCC has two kinds of
meetings. Firstly the regular Sunday night meeting which most
members attend regularly, secondly the monthly (approximately)
planning meeting which organizes the business of the Club,
including what happens on the Sundays. The planning meeting is
held on Monday, a week after the regular meeting in which all
members of the Club are urged to attend. At the planning meeting,
we discuss feature speakers for regular meetings, finances,
membership, training, and other computer related subjects.
....Bill Marchant
In this issue
Newsletter Articles.... We are almost
always in need of good articles. If anyone has something that
they feel would make a good article, an interesting story to
tell, or even a good meeting topic, please don't hesitate to pass
it on. Articles can be submitted in almost any format, ASCII
text, AMI Pro, MS Word, Windows Write, WordStar and of course
WordPerfect.
The news letter is mailed to all
paid up members and to anyone who has attended a meeting within
the past three months. Yearly membership dues are $15.00.
Club Mailing Address -
P.O. Box 29008, Halifax N.S., B3L 4T8.
In this issue
We decide the meeting dates for the
upcoming year at the last planning meeting of the season. The
dates for these are listed below. As in previous years, the
December meeting is moved to the early part of January due to
Christmas Eve being near the fourth Sunday of the month.
The planning meetings are normally held on the second Monday (8
days) after the general meeting. They are currently held at a
members home and the address is announced at the meeting prior to
the planning meeting. Anyone is welcome to assist in the planning
of future meetings or events.
Dates for the meetings starting in September are based on the
LAST Sunday in each month. Note that this is a change from
previously, when we met on the fourth Sunday.
Meeting dates for the 2000/01 season:
November 28. January 9 (Annual Swap meet), January 30, February 27, March 27, April 24, May 29, June 26.
Dates for the meetings starting in September are based on the
LAST Wednesday in each month. Note that this is a change from
previously, meeting times.
Note: There is no meeting in December. Remember also, we are now
using the LAST WEDNESDAY of the month, except for the exceptions as noted above.
Any changes to the scheduled dates will be announced where possible at the regular monthly meetings
and/or in this newsletter.
